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The only temple honoring the god Xuan Wu in the United States is located in Marysville, Calif. Bok Kai Temple,\u00a0the oldest operating Taoist temple in Northern California, was built in 1880 to replace the first temple which burned down in a fire. \u00a0The Chinese population settling in Marysville during the California Gold Rush quickly went about their business building homes, shops, temples to honor their gods, and establishment of parades and festivals\u00a0to celebrate\u00a0traditions from their homeland. Bok Kai Parade<\/a> on March 12, 2016\u00a0is said to\u00a0be the oldest continuing parade in California\u00a0since\u00a0the\u00a01850s. San Francisco’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade<\/a>\u00a0(also on March 12) was founded in 1852 and is 165 years old. The music, costumes and good luck symbols are markedly different but the two events\u00a0are both free,\u00a0held on the same day in 2016 and if you happen to make it to Marysville the Bok Kai Temple (shown in photos) is expected to be open for tours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The only temple honoring the god Xuan Wu in the United States is located in Marysville, Calif. Bok Kai Temple,\u00a0the oldest operating Taoist temple in Northern California, was built in 1880 to replace the first temple which burned down in a fire. \u00a0The Chinese population settling in Marysville during the California Gold Rush quickly went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}